There IS plenty that the general public doesn't get about Iraq. Mostly, they get NONE of the success stories. The mainstream media doesn't tell you about ANY of it.
They tell you in a little snippet about a Navy Seal getting killed. They DON'T tell you that the same group of Navy Seals has killed hundreds of insurgents, destroyed dozens of weapons caches, or protected several Iraqi officials working on getting Iraq under control. NONE of that gets through to the general public. You ONLY hear that if you know people in the military (a Seal I know on Team Deka brought me a video they produced in Afghanistan because the media NEVER ONCE reported on ANY of their successes), or make an effort to look for it.
They'll tell you a helicopter crashed or might have been shot down. They WON'T tell you that special operatinos groups have been killing terrorists and insurgents coming in from Iran, Syria, and Jordan by the GROSS. They won't tell you about the roads littered with burned out vehicles and dead bodies of the outsiders coming in to cause trouble.
They show you a video that the insurgents gave them that shows an insurgent sniper killing a soldier. But they won't show you the videos of military snipers killing insurgents.
Hell, they'll even publish the lies of supposed soldiers who are at best lying about what they did do in Iraq, and at worst didn't even go to Iraq. But they sure as Hell won't publish anything from those who go back for tour after tour, and reup because they see the progress and believe it can work and can be won.
The thing the general public doesn't get about Iraq is easily quantified. It's called good news and success stories. If you were to have asked a thousand voters at the polls yesterday what good news they'd seen about Iraq, 999 would have said none.
If you think there's nothing that the average citizen of the general public doesn't know about Iraq, you're sadly mistaken.